Pakistan Army has ten Corps including the newly formed Strategic Corps. The Army has twenty six divisions (eight less than India). Two more divisions were raised as Corps reserves for V and XXXI Corps. Pakistan Army has two armored divisions, and ten independent armored brigades. Presently one hundred thousand troops are stationed on the Pak Afghan border to fight terror. Special Service Group-SSG comprises two airborne Brigades i.e. six battalions. Pakistan Army has 360 helicopters, over two thousand heavy guns, and 3000 APC's. Its main anti-tank weapons are Tow, Tow Mk II, Bakter Shiken and FGM 148 ATGM. The Army Air Defence Command has S.A- 7 Grail, General Dynamics FIM-92 Stinger, GD FIM Red Eye, and ANZA Mk-I, Mk-II, Mk-III and HQ 2 B surface ti air missiles. Radar controlled Oerlikon is the standard Ack Ack weapon system. The ballistic missile inventory of the Army is substantial. It comprises Ghauri III and Shaheen III IRBM ; medium range Ghauri I and II and Shaheen II, and short range Hatf I- B, Abdali, Ghaznavi, Shaheen I and M -11 missiles.........(ready to be tested on real targets )

Out of 2295 Indian Army's Main Battle tanks, 2235 are of Russian origin. The main battle tanks are; 310 T-90-S Bishsma's (300 are on order), 1925 T-72M Ajeya's.. The T-90 and the T-72 have 125 mm smooth barrel guns. T-72 though old is the backbone of Indian Armor Corp's. 268 Ajeya's have been upgraded with Israeli Elbit thermal imaging systems. 1000 T-72 MBT's are awaiting up-gradation. There have been several instances of T-72's gun barrel bursting. 124 Indian made Arjun (heavy 56 ton) MBT are on order. Sixty Arjun's are in operational service. Arjun's engine overheating problem has not been solved. Arjun has a 120 mm gun, but is unfit or desert operations.Pakistan Army is equally strong in armor, capable of giving a fitting response to any Indian military adventure. Main Battle tanks Al-Khalid and Al-Zarrar are the backbone of Pakistan's armor Corp's. Both are Pakistan made. Pakistan's tank armory comprises :five hundred Al-Khalid MBT's; 320 Al-Zarrar type 85 II MBT's, 500 Al-Zarrar MBT's; 450 79II AP (Chinese type 81 upgrade, and 570 T-80 UD MBT of Ukranian make. In addition Pakistan has 880 Type 59, which were procured from China in 1970.This makes a total of three thousand six hundred and twenty tanks. All Pakistani MBT's except T-59's have 125 mm smooth barrel guns..............

PAF's ability to keep the skies over the battle areas clear of Indian Air Force. India's modern air defense system has Israeli Arrow anti-missile missiles, and 90,000 surface to air missiles-SAM's. India has one hundred nuclear armed ballistic missiles (Agni-1 and Agni II), and Brahmos the new supersonic cruise missile. Indian Army is well trained, equipped and highly professional, and so is Pakistan Army.Air power is likely to play a key, if not a decisive role in any future major or minor India-Pakistan armed conflict. The aim of Indian pre-emptive strikes will be maximum destruction by surprise air attacks, combined with shock commando action. A possibe scenario is; intensive bombing of the target to be followed by attacks by armed helicopters and ground assault by heliborne Commandoes. An overview of Indian Air Force and Pakistan Air Force will help comprehension of IAF's offensive capabilities, and defensive capabilities of Pakistan Air Force.......

In 2004 a multi-billion licence was signed for building additional 140. 240 Su30-Mk-1's were ordered, 120 are already in service. With a maximum speed of Mach 2.3 and range of 8000 Km with refueling and ability to carry tons of conventional munitions and nuclear weapons, it is a lethal and menacing weapon system for the strike and interception role. Other IAF's advanced strike and combat aircraft are: 51 Mirage-2000 (of Kargil fame), 60 Mig-29's (for air defense), 250 old Mig-21's (110 have been refurbished with Israeli help), 47 Jaguars and 70 Mig-27's for ground attack. 220 LCA Teja's under manufacture at HAL Bangalore will start entering service in 2010... IAF's fighter pilots are well trained and have out shone American pilots during joint exercises.Pakistan Air Force has 200 rebuilt Mirage- 3's ( for night air defense) and Mirage-5's for the strike role. They can carry nuclear weapons. They have been upgraded with new weapon systems, radars, and avionics. Additionally the PAF has 42 F-16's, 150 F-7's including 55 latest F-7 PG's. Manufacture of 150 JF 17 Thunder fighters (jointly designed) is underway at Pakistan Aeronautical Complex Kamra. The JF -17 Thunder is a 4th generation fly by wire multi-role fighter aircraft. Eight are already in PAF service.An order has been placed with China for the purchase of 36 JF-10, a Mach 2.3 -5th generation multi-role fighter, comparable in performance to the Su-30 Mk-1 with the Indian Air Force. PAF is on Red Alert, and is maintaining full vigil to intercept and destroy IAF intruders. During the recent air space violation, the IAF intruders were in the sights of PAF's F-16's, but were allowed to escape unscathed to avoid a major diplomatic crisis..........

I have respect for the author but javelin is not some secret weapon. If DSCA site has the details of how many harpoons, AMRAAMs and TOW we are going to procure then i am sure the procurement of javelins will also be mentioned.

He is also wrong about some other things that i have mentioned before.

I have respect for the author but javelin is not some secret weapon. If DSCA site has the details of how many harpoons, AMRAAMs and TOW we are going to procure then i am sure the procurement of javelins will also be mentioned.

He is also wrong about some other things that i have mentioned before.

Pakistan already operates Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW) with it F-16 but yet no DSCA notification and Al-Khaild’s first order was for 300 tanks and that was fulfilled few years back so 300 not the final number

I am not sure about AKs numbers but JSOW's procurement was still reported in the news (around march 2006 in dawn and pak observer). Javelin is not some super duper weapon that it would be hidden from the media.

By mentioning/reporting of javelin's procurement i meant that it will be reported in the media (like janes,AFM, SIPRI database and through DSCA notifications and not just DSCA alone)

I have not yet gone through the full article, but another stregth the P.A has is it's Artillery ... comapre what we have with India and you'll see Pakistan has far more advanced artillery comapred to anything that India has of soviet era in it's inventory.

Now compare this yourself to the Indian artillery which is mainly made of up Soviet era and they lack any 155 mm artillery, this is where Pakistan has an advantage over them, sure they have more numbers, but our combained numbers of 155 mm and 203 mm can produce the same ammount of fire power that the whole of Indian artillery units combined can produce.

Another advantage of Pakistan is the movement of troops to the battlefiled. Pakistan has thosuands upon thosuands of APC/ Armoured fighting vehicles, India lacks such a capability of moving troops into the war zone under heavy fire.

JSOW's procurement was still reported in the news (around march 2006 in dawn and pak observer). Javelin is not some super duper weapon that it would be hidden from the media.

A weapon don’t have to be a super duper weapon to conceal its sale as super duper weapons are easily detected by intelligences as compared to small weapons and may be number is too small

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I am not sure about AKs numbers

When first batch of fifteen tanks was inducted into the 31st Cavalry Regiment of Pakistan army on 20 July 2001 it was reported that HIT will be able to produce up to 100 tanks a year if required so number is completely with in range of capacity of HIT and I doubt that PA would have stood still at 300 figure when insane indian army is getting mad and purchasing 600+ T-90 from Russia and local assembly line for more

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By mentioning/reporting of javelin's procurement i meant that it will be reported in the media (like janes,AFM, SIPRI database and through DSCA notifications and not just DSCA alone)

SIPRI database still make no mention of JSOW and janes is most of the time wrong as they usually keep coping from India media that is anti Pakistan

There will be TOT for A-100s later trust me but it will take some years.

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A weapon don’t have to be a super duper weapon to conceal its sale as super duper weapons are easily detected by intelligences as compared to small weapons and may be number is too small

May be may be not. I still doubt the accuracy of some things in the article.It looks like the figures were straight from wiki. His other articles are quite good.

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When first batch of fifteen tanks was inducted into the 31st Cavalry Regiment of Pakistan army on 20 July 2001 it was reported that HIT will be able to produce up to 100 tanks a year if required so number is completely with in range of capacity of HIT and I doubt that PA would have stood still at 300 figure when insane indian army is getting mad and purchasing 600+ T-90 from Russia and local assembly line for more

50/yr in normal conditions.100/yr in full capacity.

India may be madly purchasing the T-90s but we still have 300+ T-80 UDs and its time we develop AK2. Remember an offensive force should have 3 times the number that the defensive force has.Right now we are not going to have any war.

Besides we also have thousands of new TOWs and thousands of bakter shikens. Our strategy is offensive defensive. We are not going to capture the whole cities just 15-25 kms of their area(from our border) to be used as a bargaining chip later in the negotiations or for some other purposes.

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SIPRI database still make no mention of JSOW and janes is most of the time wrong as they usually keep coping from India media that is anti Pakistan

But it was still reported in the media (JSOW was mentioned in the corp commander conference i guess).

Air Marshal Ayaz A Khan ® is certaily relaible person when compared to the Pakistani media reports there may be one or two mistakes but that dont mean all the facts are BS and not all the BTR-70s are deployed aboard at any time.Even if we go by minimun of 50 tanks a year that puts number in excess of 300 Al-Khalid tanks and there was also a india-Pakistan stand off which would have certainly increased the pace of the production

I have never doubted the capabilities of Pak armed forces to defend us from external aggression - especially from our eastern border. But the real question is who is going to save us from ourselves?

Those causing trouble in FATA, Swat etc. may or may not be working for foriegn interests - I don't know, but we cannot doubt that the vast majority of the them r Pakistanis and from within our borders. We need ways of dealing with these misguided people. That is the biggest military and political problem facing the country.

FGM 148 a.k.a is Javelin Missile, so we have these in our inventory? Reason why I have asked this question is the Indians have bought these Javelin Missile/buying these missiles.http://timesofindia....how/6320750.cms

"When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains,
jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier". - Rudyard Kipling